Wikipedia SEO Strategies : Why WikiPedia Rank Higher in Google

As a SEO learner, one of the best way to learn is by looking at search engine optimization techniques on some of the popular and Google favored site. This will help a lot to understand what your blog is missing and how you can make your blog internal SEO better. Here we will look into Wikipedia SEO strategies, which will help you to learn more about On page SEO and you can take away 2-3 things from here and implement it on your website.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular website and you will find SEO ranking for most of the Keyword at number 1 in Google search. Wikipedia’s popularity owes itself to the website being unique, with article content that any user can edit. With a huge volume of visitors to the site, Wikipedia would seem like an ideal tool in SEO strategy, but certain elements involving its culture and policies can prove very difficult for SEO implementors to use.

Wikipedia employs stringent policies with regard to link spam, to the point that even relevant external links to its many articles at times get deleted. The few remaining links are in the form of tags to hide them from search engine spiders, which defeats the purpose of using Wikipedia as part of any SEO strategy.

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A simple look at Wikipedia SEO Strategies:

Wikipedia and the Nofollow Value

Because of Wikipedia’s peculiar characteristics making it a prime target for individuals wishing to tap it for a variety of purposes, 2007 saw the implementation of the nofollow value for all back links to its articles. This concept was a Google invention in 2005. By adding a certain meta tag to an html link, web spider programs will not be able to crawl the link into its search engine index.

This concept is virtually foolproof and the web-crawlers of all major search engines follow it. And since all external links in Wikipedia, excluding those leading to other Wikimedia websites, are coded with the nofollow value, these back links are not able to promote the websites they point to. Still, this measure did little to curb the proliferation of links in Wikipedia’s articles. People add redundant items to Wikipedia like links to sub pages of a parent website in addition to the main page’s link. Most of the time multiple relevant links are added to a single article, such as links to social network sites, fan sites, forums, and others in an attempt to achieve comprehensiveness. In most other websites these links are usually located in the links page but this feature is not available with Wikipedia.

Wikipedia’s Bureaucracy and Cultural Backgrounds

In a nutshell, the policy of the website governing external links can be described as limiting any such links added to a particular article to the most reader-useful, directly relevant ones only to keep the number of added links per article to a minimum. Some of the editors in Wikipedia rigidly review contributed articles to root out spam and ensure the quality of submitted content. A few implemented these policies to an extent where it is almost impossible to add an external link to an article without it being removed, eespecially if little effort is taken to justify its inclusion.

Sometimes a contributor will add a hyper linked text in the article content as a reference citation. These citations are also frequently removed not because they are judged to be inappropriate, but because they fail Wikipedia’s similarly-confusing standards for verifiability. This usually holds true if the cited reference is a self-published piece on the subject. Examples of these are blogs and press releases. A notable incident in 2007 involved Rand Fishkin observing that the Wikipedia article on SEO had its citations removed simply because they originated from self-published sources, even if those citations are attributable to known SEO experts. Such incidents can be frustrating for article contributors.

The Practice of Blacklisting Pages in Wikipedia

As an extreme measure, a notorious website may be banned by Wikipedia administrators if it poses a significant threat as a link spammer. One such website, Suite101.com, was blacklisted by Wikipedia in 2006 when article writers for the former overstuffed their material with back links to attract more viewers. Back then the website compensated its writers based on the number of page views received.

The nofollow policy resulted from this incident, and since then Suite101.com replaced its compensation scheme to follow a pay per click model. Despite the change, Wikipedia’s verdict on the issue stands. None of Suite101’s article links may be placed within Wikipedia, not even as reference citations. Suite101 president Peter Berger appealed to Wikipedia to no avail, and afterwards the only leeway for removal of a site from the blacklist is through popular demand.

Promoting a website by attaching its links in Wikipedia is futile, as the incidents mentioned above demonstrate. Harsh policies and customs ensure that no link having the slightest hint of a promotional agenda will long survive scouring by Wikipedia fanatics intent on keeping it as a pure resource of human knowledge.

Well I’m not sure how many of you work day and night on On page SEO. But you should clearly try to imply some of Wikipedia SEO strategies on your blog to make it more SEO friendly.

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Wikipedia’s importance as an authority site is undisputed. It’s at the point where it seems a bit ridiculous how often Wikipedia shows up in the first page of Google for just about every search imaginable. In many cases, these Wikipedia entries are extremely light on content. Oftentimes they are what are known as “stubs,” just the very beginnings of an article.

I always had the thought that Wikipedia is the easiest way to promote any blog or business websites. But after reading this post, I am very clear its not an easy process to promote links via Wikipedia. Thanks for this useful article.

Your blog got indexed by Google- It doesn’t mean that it is because of the do follow or no-follow link. All the sites are getting indexed by Google but take its own time depending upon the crawl rate. To make it fast, some SEO works are required such as pinging , URL submission etc.
You placed a comment in this page with your site link. Crawler may access this site daily five times but it will not go to the no-follow link at that time for indexing. If it is a do-follow link, then the crawler will follow that link also to index contents instantly.

The importance of Pagerank is debatable , if you consider Pagerank, then at least for that calculation, Google doesn’t count no-follow links.

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Honestly, let me ask you people something: Wikipedia is providing a valuable service. Why do you want to spam it by placing links to lame marketing sites? Why do you want to turn it into a squidoo or ehow? The quality of these sites have dropped significantly because of spammers. And you’re doing just that by placing your links there.

Stop going the easy way and build it through the right way. Stop spamming the forums. Do effective social bookmarking and article marketing. You will naturally rank.

I had attempted on writing an article about a website. the only think lacking was 2 strong references. and i was having only one reference. So i didn’t publish the article. I tried chatting with the experts in the chat room but they told me to find minimum of 2 strong references. So sad 🙁 if it was accepted then i would have got atleast one backlink from wiki ;p lol

I just tried adding some external links but they were removed in minutes.
The things is that were some already other links there no more relevant than mine which is why I thought it would be ok. Maybe the policy is not applied consistently.

we cannot always experts to write articles, they are just too busy. What i have seen is noobs producing great content as they go on. You just need to produce something unique after doing considerable amount of research. Also SERPS depends a lot on niche.

Wikipedia is always occupping the top positions (including in serious researches, like medicine or law), regardless of the value of the article versus schoolar articles or, in many cases, press or magazine articles. Many times we had to include a “-wikipedia.org” in the search box.

Nofollow links on Wilipedia wont help you much, but they are still links. Google and others travel the web through these links, if they see you in more relevant and respectable places, they will consider you influencial to that niche/topic.